Quotes About Morality

Znios? brutaln? si??, ale brutalny rozs?dek jest absolutnie nie do zniesienia. Pos?ugiwanie si? nim jest nie fair. To cios poni?ej intelektu

are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

El vicio supremo es la superficialidad.

However, I don't propose to discuss politics, sociology, or metaphysics with you. I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.

Dorian to Harry 'Don't, Harry. The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought, and sold, and bartered away. It can be poisoned, or made perfect. There is a soul in each one of us. I know it.

We praise the banker that we may overdraw our account, and find good qualities in the highwayman in the hope that he may spare our pockets. I mean everything that I have said.

Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others. One's own life—that is the important thing. As for the lives of one's neighbours, if one wishes to be a prig or a Puritan, one can flaunt one's moral views about them, but they are not one's concern. Besides, individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age. I consider that for any man of culture to accept the standard of his age is a form of the grossest immorality.

There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral - immoral from the scientific point of view.

It isn't those who are taken by force, put in chains, and sold as slaves who are the real slaves; it is those who will accept it, morally and physically.

Only she is chaste whom none has invited

Video meliora proboque, deteriora sequor.

I see and approve of the better, but I follow the worse.

Aliudque cupido, mens aliud suadet: video meliora proboque,deteriora sequor!

Siqua metu dempto casta est, ea denique casta est; quae, quia non liceat, non facit, illa facit

Ceza kald?r?labilir; ama suç insan?n içinde sonsuza kadar yaÅŸar.

I thought there should in truth be heavy damages for malpractice on human souls.

He looked pleased. I reckon, he said, I couldn't be so good if I wasn't bad onced in a while

It's sad, y'know, what money does to people.

One prefers, of course, on all occasions to be stainless and above reproach, but, failing that, the next best thing is unquestionably to have got rid of the body.

Jeeves, whatever his moral defects, would never go about in skirts calling me Bertie.

Knowing what moral values and ethics are will not guarantee that good decisions will be made, but it will allow us to recognize that some problems have moral dimensions.

I'm] as broke as the ten commandments.

Evil will win if good people do nothing.